Sometimes we get so busy and so focused on the day-to-day that we forget to take a step back and realize just how far we’ve come and how much progress has been made in only the first six months of the Trump Second Term.

Honestly, it’s absolutely stunning and I think completely fair to say unprecedented.

In fact, President Trump has done more in 6 months than most Presidents do their entire four years in office.

So credit to Glenn Beck for putting this together, a very special tribute where he recounts all of the impossible things President Trump has accomplished in only six short months, many of which I bet you’ve even forgotten about.

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Hello, Stu. How are you? Great, Glenn. How are you? Uh, very good.

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You know, we were talking yesterday. How do we get up on this subject that maybe we are? Have we become numb to how fast big things are happening? Like, things we never thought would ever happen as a conservative. Uh, it’s overwhelming. I don’t even know that it’s our fault.

There’s so much stuff going on all the time – right – that I think it’s going to be overwhelming for the average person. And we’re looking at things, and I think rightfully so. I’m very upset still about the way the Epstein thing rolled out. I still am watching that closely.

I’m still watching what Tulsi Gabbard rolled out. Is anything going to happen with that? I think that is shocking news, but let’s see if anything happens. Why are we getting bogged down on things like that? They’re very important.

It goes to the trust of the United States. However, we’re not sitting. You said to me one time, you were like, “Glenn, can we take a moment and just admire the accomplishment we all just made?” Because I am always the kind of guy who will do something great, and while it’s on stage, I’m like, okay, here’s what we’re gonna do next. Here’s the next five years of events.

Yeah. Here’s what we’re gonna do next time. And you said to me one time in real frustration, “We just did the impossible. Can you just take a minute?” And I’m like, yeah, you’re right. So maybe we should say that to America.

Start with sports. This is from an article from Chris Bedford in The Blaze, “We’re finally living through a conservative revolution we’ve always needed.” Now listen to this. Start with sports. The right’s victory in pushing back gender ideology on this front marks a turning point. Five years ago, none of us had ever heard of, we had never really considered, ninety different genders being taught to our children in school.

We never even thought it would be reality that the government could take our children in school, indoctrinate them, then give them a sex change without us even knowing it. All of that has stopped. The ideology in sports – not just because it helps women, not because it polls well – matters because it’s the first real cultural win for truth that we have had in my adult life. Without that kind of victory, without truth, nothing else can be fixed. We have changed from a government that could not identify a Supreme Court Justice – and we’ve seen how good she is now – a Justice who said, “I can’t identify. I don’t know. I’m not a scientist. I don’t know how to define a woman.”

We’ve gone from that to, “That’s a chick, dude! That’s a chick!” I mean, we have taken the government and our schools and totally turned that around in six months. I think that’s a pretty big thing. Remember, you couldn’t say that that was anything other than a beautiful woman if it was a dude. You couldn’t say it. You’d be shut down.

I couldn’t have had this conversation without massive pushback with you. Now, I don’t care because we’re independent, but the pushback five or six years ago, if I would have said, you know, “No. Sorry.” You wouldn’t get that pushback from this audience, but you would from the outset. There was a time where a conversation as obvious as this would, if you posted it on certain social medias, get you banned, your account suspended. Yes. We were having bans four years ago; we were under bans on several different platforms.

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We did it anyway. We’ll bash our face into the brick wall over and over again with malice. We’re dumb. But it was something that was happening to people all over the country. Now, Chris points out, let’s not forget over the last four years, welfare rolls rose, government job numbers got a boost, but it was mainly foreign workers.

White men ages fifty to sixty‑five were not getting hired. The border was wide open, crime everywhere, tolerated, even sanctified as if letting it happen was the morally right thing to do. In the six months since the inauguration of Donald Trump, he has sealed the border on a shoestring budget. His administration launched raids up and down the country, which has struck fear into the hearts of illegal immigrants nationwide. And that’s important because we’re not having to scoop all of them up.

His self‑deportation thing is working like crazy. People are self‑deporting, just as common sense would tell you it would. The White House also has fired or bought out more than 100,000 federal bureaucrats, made the largest tax cut in U.S. history permanent, and proved that Americans can hit its enemies hard without getting dragged into nation‑building. Every president since George W. Bush and maybe Clinton said Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon, but they did nothing. We’ve tried everything except strength, because strength, according to the State Department, would get us embroiled in a war that would last forever.

Donald Trump – now I don’t know if you’re honest enough to say this – I am, and maybe it’s not the same with you, but it is with me. When he made that decision, I thought, my gosh, this is such a dangerous decision. I believe it’s a decision that he has to make, but this could lead to World War III. And then I thought, this is why, Glenn, you could never be President of the United States. I don’t know if I have the courage to say, “Yeah, well, if World War III starts and it starts because I made this move, so be it.”

I wouldn’t have the courage to do that. That’s why I would make a very bad president. You have to have somebody, and Donald Trump knows he’s right whether he is or not when he approaches a decision. He’ll get all kinds of counsel on it, but when he approaches a decision, he’s made the decision – he’s right. When it comes to World War III, I don’t think I could do that.

Neither have any of the presidents since Ronald Reagan. Only Ronald Reagan was willing to look at Gorbachev in the eye and say, “Not gonna do it. And if it means World War III, that’s fine.” I don’t think we should fight it. Here’s what happens. It’s horrifying.

I’m willing to take all of our missiles and get rid of all of them if you are too. But if you want to keep ratcheting it up, I’ll crush you. Everyone said that was World War III. That was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Same thing.

We haven’t seen this since Ronald Reagan. Everyone has said, “They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.” This is the first president who had the courage to do something about it. It’s amazing. By the way, the same tax cut included seventy‑five billion dollars for interior immigration enforcement. This happened two weeks ago, by the way.

He has changed the Middle East; he has supported Israel, but now he is also saying, “Israel, you gotta slow down here. We need peace.” He is putting peace in the region together like I’ve never seen before. He already did it once with the Abraham Accords, but what he’s doing now by building this giant silicon area in the Middle East – do you know why he’s doing that? China is doing their Belt and Road thing.

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So what is that? That’s trying to get Huawei everywhere. Huawei is, you know, our Nvidia. It is the big tech producer for China. And if China gets their road and belt, if they get all of these places to take Huawei instead of American technology, we’re screwed.

So what is Donald Trump really doing in the Middle East? I don’t even think we talked about this when he was over there. We were just so in awe of what he’s bringing together. When he was standing there, remember they built that little model of the City of Tomorrow, the Tech City of Tomorrow? It was in the UAE or maybe it was Saudi Arabia, and they had this huge model made and it was the Tech City of Tomorrow, all about industrial servers, chip manufacturing, et cetera. It was a joint project between the Middle East and America.

Why did he do that? Because if we don’t have other countries bought solely into our chips, if they are playing two roads and they can go over to China and get Huawei, if we’re weak, that destroys us. We must be the leader in chips. Nobody even understands what he’s doing. Nobody understands what he’s doing with the servers and the tech. Have you noticed that the gas price is the lowest it’s been since when? 2020? During COVID it was probably lower, but it’s really low.

And we’re not even talking about that. How about the price of eggs? Down fifty‑four percent. We’re not even talking about that. It’s like, yeah, we’re in the drive‑through and we’re like, “You gave it to me in two minutes, why don’t I have it in ninety seconds?” Are you saying that as a country or as conservatives? I think conservatives are saying that.

Really? Conservative polling is showing no variation from any of this stuff for conservatives. They all just love Trump. They’re there. The MAGA people are there. Ninety percent type approval ratings. But have we? Nothing, no movement whatsoever from the Epstein thing that I’ve seen. Yeah, I know that. In fact, I think it helped him – strangely. I mean, I don’t know if it helped him, but it didn’t hurt him. He improved in that period, seemingly. So I don’t know. It seems like Republicans, conservatives, MAGA types are seeing these positive things and appreciating them.

I hope so. I just think that a lot of the stuff doesn’t have widespread popularity across the country outside of those groups. For example, when you look at the immigration policy, if you can divide it into two things. You mentioned both of them. One was border security and one was the framing that it was raids up and down the country.

Border security’s looked at positively by most of America. Raids are not. In fact, raids are wildly unpopular outside of Republican and conservative circles. Now, that doesn’t mean you don’t do them. It’s an important part of the policy. The problem with the raids is the press. The press is still in the bag. The press is saying that these are just poor migrants. No, they’re not.

They’re not going after those guys yet. Much of it has been falsely covered. These are the murderers, these are the gang members, these are the ones causing real issues, and they’re trying to make it appear as though they’re everywhere so people will self‑deport without any chaos. That’s the whole idea. But that’s the press being dishonest.

It’s not just the press, though. It’s filtered into the podcast world. Andrew Schultz is a comedian. He voted for Trump, supported Trump, and I heard him do an interview where he said one of the main reasons he supported Trump is he believed we should have border security, but we should not go after nice people who are just working, illegally here and just working.

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That’s not what he’s gonna do. I asked the president about that, and he told me that was not gonna be his priority. And then look at this. It’s not his priority. First of all, I think it’s not his priority. And secondly, what this is is certainly not a policy of mass deportations. I think there are a lot of border hawks who are like, “Hey, are we gonna get to those widespread deportations soon?” I am. So his perception through the media, and it’s moved people like this, is that Trump is going around every Home Depot and arresting random people who have families here and have done nothing else wrong other than cross the border illegally, which I still think is a significant issue, but not everyone agrees with us on that.

So I think that’s been part of the problem, but I don’t think that’s in conservative circles. Cory Booker reposted a video on X – first it came posted on Instagram from shayfarmkid. It shows someone picking and planting and everything else, and it glorifies the invisible hands that feed us. They’re not invisible hands. I can see them.

These are all the farm workers, the “invisible hands” that feed us, aka the migrants who pick vegetables for less than minimum wage. And we’re told that they’re all being rounded up. So you just decided to put a bunch of them on video and post it on social media? What kills me is how come they – I mean, there was a rant from Joe Biden or Hunter Biden. I love the Hunter Biden thing; it deserves its full airing. It’s absolutely amazing. These people have not changed from the 1850s. They are still saying, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, they’re Black people, but how are we gonna get the cotton picked in the fields?”

How are you? You want to pay more for that shirt and that pair of pants? How are you gonna? Really? Do you smoke cigars? Who’s gonna pick that tobacco? Slavery was wrong. We survived without slavery. We will survive and figure out the way to do it without illegals. Stop encouraging people to live in the shadows so you can have cheaper food, Democrats. This is Glenn Beck.

Just looking at what has been done in the last six months, it is pretty amazing – the progress on things that we never ever thought could be done.

They got the straw thing taken care of yesterday. Just that is a nice one.

They got the shoe thing at the airport. I was at the airport on Friday, and they told me, “Don’t worry, you don’t have to take your shoes off and your laptop has to come out, but the liquid thing, that’s on the way.” The liquid rule is another one. You can have liquids now. Bring a bottle of water through the security line.

Coming soon – not done yet, but coming soon supposedly. Just that and the straw thing I never thought would happen. Huge. He got us out of the Paris Accords and the WEF and ESG. While they’re still out there, they’re not breathing down our neck like something that’s about to take over. Major progress there.

Look at the corporations, how they have flipped. This is remarkable for six months. Many of these things are mostly toward his base. These are things that conservatives wanted because they were the ones under the most amount of fire. It’s understandable why people in the middle and on the left might be less excited about those things and maybe that’s hurting his approval rating. I think a lot of it is focus.

Focusing on things like there are no shoes on planes is smart because that’s something that’s overwhelmingly popular. That’s Rudy Giuliani back in the 1980s. Giuliani got into office and the first thing he took on was changing people’s lives. I think Trump is doing that, but it just happens among all the other stuff that is happening where he should take a moment and take a victory lap on the things that actually change people’s lives, like the no shoe thing at the airport and the straw thing. Those are things that I’m sick of – those paper straws.

I was at a restaurant over the weekend. I can’t stand them. They gave me one of those stupid straws that turned into a slimy piece of nothing by the time I finished the drink. Thank you for that. All that nonsense is over.

The showers – you can have water pressure again in your shower. That’s another good one. I know I’m missing a ton of things. It’s interesting because you look at how the overall country looks at Trump’s policies, and you can find polls all over the place on this. Some are more liberal, some are more conservative, but the order of these policies generally is about the same on almost all of these polls.

Most popular is border security. Next is immigration. Deportations is next. Again, that is underwater on some polling, but it’s still one of his more popular policies tied to that. You see all three of the top three are all related to the border.

Why? Because people see that in their own neighborhood. They’re afraid of their own neighborhoods in many ways. They see it. They recognize terrorism, gangs, fentanyl, drugs. They see crime going up. This is one of the things they see and know instinctively is bad.

They may not like the correction, but they want the correction. They want it. They just don’t want to say they want it. You want a hamburger; you don’t necessarily want to hang out at the slaughterhouse. It’s exactly like that.

Again, I feel like someone who has broken the law – I don’t have any problem with it at all. I have no problem. But from a general perspective, of course, they should be treated like human beings, which they are, but I want them out. What’s interesting about this is his approval rating for immigration – still his most popular set of policies – has fallen from plus eleven in March on average, and it is now minus six. That is because of people like Cory Booker and the press and the way the press is making this all look.

It’s also pretty standard for most presidents. We should also note that Trump is ahead of his first term considerably. Even though they’re focusing on the falling in the polls, he’s doing better than he was in his first term. After that you have jobs and the economy. Then foreign policy.

Did I even mention the jobs? On the massive job front, whether you spend ten billion dollars or ten thousand dollars, you get a tax credit if you are building infrastructure that actually creates jobs. How about all of the red tape he’s cut for nuclear power plants and coal‑fired plants? That’s a very divisive thing, but I like it. It’s phenomenal. I think it’s great.

There are several things where you’re like, wait, what? I heard about the shoe thing at the airport. Everybody was talking about the shoe thing this weekend. That’s great. But you’re kind of like, okay, yeah, the shoe thing.

Do you know that we now are building nuclear power plants? It just happened. When he announced that on this show, I thought, holy cow, that’s gonna be front page news in the New York Times. Nothing. No pushback, which shows they’re actually for it; they just don’t want to say they’re for it.

No pushback whatsoever. And it’s like, wait a minute, how is this happening? It’s amazing. A couple of other ones: now you get into less popular policies, managing the federal government workforce. We didn’t mention that part, but the conflicts over cryptocurrency and certain memes hurt him. Those squabbles and also just firing a bunch of workers from the government – very popular for me, for you, and for many in the audience, but not so popular nationwide because people argue children are going to starve.

Again, it’s not necessarily true because the press is in the bag. The press is lying about these things. USAID is the biggest thing. He cut USAID. That has forever been a CIA operation. It’s a front for the CIA.

It’s been causing revolution. It is probably responsible for millions of deaths since the 1960s, because it’s revolution after revolution after revolution, all fomented by USAID. I never thought that could be cut. Gone. Holy cow.

Now, it doesn’t make him popular with everybody – most people oppose that – but it’s a very big deal. At the very bottom of these, the least popular: trade with other countries, government funding and social programs, health care, and prices and inflation. Those are the very bottom of the barrel for him. But again, this is just more of a thing of how he should focus. What are his attentions beyond the public view?

He needs to concentrate right now. He needs to get the conservatives to put pressure on the Senate, get the U.S. attorneys approved. You can’t prosecute anything without the attorneys. Get the U.S. attorneys approved, Senate, this summer – right now. The other side of that is I think he needs to find ways to just focus on the economy.

If you can make people’s lives better – and I don’t know how he’s gonna do that, because that all comes from job creation and everything else, and you don’t turn that one around quickly – prices have fallen, inflation is down, but we are out of little gimmicks that we can do, like sending everybody a check of $10,000, which is always popular. We can’t do any of those gimmicks. So I don’t know how it happens, but concentrate on the things that make people’s lives better so they recognize their life is getting better. Next hour, we’ve got a ton on our plate. Don’t miss a second. This is Glenn Beck.

It’s interesting. That stuff hasn’t polled all that well overall, but it’s been good for conservatives. I’m not saying that he should be targeting polling by what he’s doing; I’m just trying to see why his approval rating would be falling. He’s frozen tens of millions of dollars of our money going to liberal universities and is suing them for racial discrimination. The Left, for the first time ever, I have not seen this for a long time – you know, they’ll just get up in front of Congress and they’ll just lie. For the first time in forty years, I’m seeing people go to Congress and they’re not lying; they’ll say, “I plead the Fifth.”

That means they’re actually afraid something will happen to them, that somebody is serious this time. That’s a huge step. Now, I haven’t seen the seriousness begin, but some things are happening behind the scenes in Washington that I found out about yesterday. If the Senate acts to actually confirm more U.S. attorneys – there are something like seventy of them backlogged and they’re not doing anything – you can’t have prosecutions without the U.S. attorneys. I did hear that they were considering canceling the August break to get a lot of the stuff through; he’s begging them to. I think they said something about doing that.

Birthright citizenship is now possibly on the chopping block. Never thought that would happen. The vaccine industrial complex – that’s all being dismantled. The Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices – they fired all the people from Big Pharma on that. He took on South Africa and their land seizures, their government‑incited murder, all of that stuff. We are no longer, that we know of, being shadow banned. He’s got the AI people and the tech people generally on his side and has said government should not be involved in any kind of stuff on free speech. And the Democrats have completely caved.

I go back to Stu – what I said to Stu, or what he said to me years ago: “Hey, Glenn.” I think it was the day we put GBTV on the air; we launched a network the week we were doing our first ever and only foreign event in Israel. None of us spoke Hebrew. None of us spoke Arabic. None of us had ever put together an event. None of us had ever started a network, and we did it at the same time in one week. We were finished and I was already going, “Okay, here’s what we have to do next.” And Stu came to me and said, “What do you say we celebrate just for a second?” Just for a second. That’s all I wanted to say today – could we just celebrate for just a second?

We gotta get back to all the things that aren’t being done, but my gosh, look what’s happened. Over and over and over again, things I never thought we’d get done are being done. Next hour, we’ve got a ton on our plate. Don’t miss a second. This is Glenn Beck.

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